This is a NU warstory.I recently made a NU team that was so effective; I decided to start using it in the upper tiers. It does lose, it has a 17-5 ratio, which I am very proud of. Unfortunately, there are many bad sports on Pokémon Online, the server on which I am playing, meaning that don’t have much to preserve as a warstory. This is one of the few that the opponent did not ragequit, and actually stuck it through. Even though it wasn’t particularly interesting and doesn’t have much prediction, I’m sure observers will find it entertaining. Note that this is not a “wifi” battle on PO, so I had no knowledge of his team beforehand. I tried to use a team of essentially the most underrated pokemon ever, none of which are commonly seen in OU battles, and surprisingly, this is my most defensive team I have with 3 defensive pokemon:

This early in the game, I figure that this is one of those common iron head/zen headbutt choice leads, and will probably u-turn out. Fire blast is my strongest move, but he might switch out to something like Jellicent or Starmie, but I can KO starmie with a dark pulse. If he stays in and tries to flinch me, it’s my best option.

I guessed wrong. He is clearly not scarfed, and probably holds a damp rock. This team must be rain dance, though it works well that I got in a fireblast with focus sash intact. Dark pulse, to ensure the kill with better accuracy. Also, he has no politoed because otherwise he would not run rain dance on his politoed.

Start of turn 2Score – 6-6BoBoBoBoBoBoBo called Jirachi back!BoBoBoBoBoBoBo sent out Kingdra!

Nightmare used Dark Pulse!The foe's Kingdra lost 42% of its health!

Rain continues to fall!

He switched out…I know for a fact that this team is swift swim, and this is probably a DD sweeper or a special sweeper. I may as well get as much damage as possible in.

Start of turn 3Score – 6-6The foe's Kingdra used Surf!It's super effective!A critical hit!Nightmare lost 290 HP! (99% of its health)Nightmare hung on using its Focus Sash!The foe's Kingdra is hurt by its Life Orb!

Nightmare used Dark Pulse!The foe's Kingdra lost 43% of its health!Rain continues to fall!Yes! Special sweeper! Meaning he won’t DD and possibly ruin sucker punch.

Rain continues to fall!BoBoBoBoBoBoBo sent out Scizor!Seeing as I’m at 1 hp, he no doubt has bullet punch on that. All scizors do. I can either do Swampy or Browlo, but he might have a life orb and bug bite me. He might be scarfed and use bug bite as well.

Start of turn 5Score – 6-5Saffa called Nightmare back!Saffa sent out Swampy! (Gastrodon-East)

The foe's Scizor used Bullet Punch!It's not very effective...Swampy lost 94 HP! (22% of its health)

Rain continues to fall!Now, I see what he does. He didn’t get hurt by life orb, which means he either has choice scarf, choice band, or leftovers. Block whatever comes in, probably a grass type, if he uses U-turn or withdraws from choice. I’m guessing he’s banded because he did an awful lot to gastrodoon for a ½ effectiveless move on my extremely bulky Swampy.Start of turn 6Score – 6-5BoBoBoBoBoBoBo called Scizor back!BoBoBoBoBoBoBo sent out Ludicolo!

Didn’t count on roar..all my hard work, destroyed…Tropica can take it, so long as it doesn’t back hp ice. I don’t think it does, probably Rain Dance/Roost/Thunder/Roar, because it used the hp slot on roar.

Start of turn 15Score – 4-4The foe's Zapdos used Thunder!Tropica lost 159 HP! (39% of its health)Tropica is paralyzed! It may be unable to move!Tropica ate its Lum Berry!Tropica's status cleared!

Tropica used Return!The foe's Zapdos lost 11% of its health!

Rain continues to fall!Tropica's gained a Lum Berry thanks to its Harvest!

If I DD, it’ll just phaze me. I can’t let that happen, so I can slowly chip away at its health with return, resting every other turn.

If I DD, it’ll waste a turn roaring me out, so I may as well do it, and hit it with a +1 return (which won’t do much, considering the EVs in attack). We can now play a mind game to when it thunders or when it roars. I can actualy stall it out if I have to with rest. I’m at 60%, so it’ll probably thunder (hopefully, or I’ll have wasted a turn with DD)

Start of turn 18Score – 4-4The foe's Zapdos used Thunder!Tropica lost 154 HP! (38% of its health)Tropica is paralyzed! It may be unable to move!Tropica ate its Lum Berry!Tropica's status cleared!

THANK YOU HAXGOD! Now I don’t have to sacrifice Nightmare, and I can save Eden for after scizor’s dead. Seeing as he just sent it out, he wants to bullet punch me, and because he’s banded, I can easily switch to Browlo.

Start of turn 21Score – 4-3Saffa called Nightmare back!Saffa sent out Browlo! (Slowbro)

The foe's Scizor used Bullet Punch!It's not very effective...Browlo lost 71 HP! (18% of its health)

Browlo restored a little HP using its Leftovers!BoBoBoBoBoBoBo: wow

I guess he doesn’t like switching on bulky waters .

Start of turn 22Score – 4-3BoBoBoBoBoBoBo called Scizor back!BoBoBoBoBoBoBo sent out Jirachi!

Browlo used Calm Mind!Browlo's Sp. Att. rose!Browlo's Sp. Def. rose!

Browlo restored a little HP using its Leftovers!Saffa: please don't quit...Saffa: I need this for a thread...BoBoBoBoBoBoBo: I wont

I knew he was going to switch out, so a calm mind is useful against whatever threat. It probably packs thunderpunch or thunder because this is rain dance.

Browlo used Psyshock!It's not very effective...The foe's Jirachi lost 0% of its health!The foe's Jirachi fainted!

BoBoBoBoBoBoBo sent out Scizor!

Thank you. I psyshocked just in case of a switch to ludicolo. Banded scizor. It has bug bite, but I can kill it with Nightmare if it uses that, and Browlo dies and I stay in. If it uses pursuit, It can’t kill me and I can finish it with surf, so plan is stay in.